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Essentials of Greek and Roman Classic: a Guide to the Humanities

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Barron's: January 1949

Seller ID: 346391

ISBN: B001UXC7D4

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

By: Aeschylus

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 1984

Seller ID: 343177

ISBN: 0140443339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out...
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Aeschylus II: The Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

By: Aeschylus

Price: $5.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: April 2013

Seller ID: 351407

ISBN: 0226311473

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Aeschylus II contains "The Oresteia," translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus," translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an E...
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics)

By: Aeschylus

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1961

Seller ID: 324621

ISBN: 0140441123

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with e...
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The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius

By: Apuleius,

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: August 1998

Seller ID: 362812

ISBN: 0374505322

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In all of literature, there are few books with the vitality of "The Golden Ass." The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit.
Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, translator, and critic. His many books include the historical novels "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God," the autobiography "Good-bye to All That," and the mythic/literary studies "The White Goddess" and "The Greek Myths."
In all of literature ...
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Aristophanes Frogs (Focus Classical Library)

By: Aristophanes

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.: April 2008

Seller ID: 225999

ISBN: 158510308X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. The Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture and the roots of contemporary thought.
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics)

By: Aristophanes

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Plume: May 1994

Seller ID: 334721

ISBN: 0452007178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast, establishing the tradition of comedy as high art. His messages are as timely and relevant today as they were in ancient Greece, and his plays still provoke laughter--and thought.

This volume features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and The Cl...
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The Portable Greek Reader (Portable Library)

By: Auden, W. H.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1977

Seller ID: 362055

ISBN: 0140150390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy.
Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are excerpts from the mythologies of Hesiod; the martial epics of Homer; the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the philosophy of...
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Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb Classical Library No. 403) (English and Latin Edition)

By: Cicero

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: January 1954

Seller ID: 357988

ISBN: 0674994442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourtee...
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How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

By: Cicero, Quintus Tullius

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 357730

ISBN: 0691154082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political wisdom, from the importance of promising everything to everybody and reminding voters about the sexual scandals of your opponents to being a chameleon, putting on a good show for the masses, an...
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Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation

By: Crawford, Michael H., Whitehead, David

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: February 1983

Seller ID: 342013

ISBN: 0521296382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of much that the Greeks created, there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their societ...
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The Homeric Hymns (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Crudden, Michael

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2002

Seller ID: 351529

ISBN: 0192802402

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter...
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The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)

By: DAVENPORT, BASIL

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1977

Seller ID: 362050

ISBN: 0140150560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the wo...
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The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)

By: DAVENPORT, BASIL

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1977

Seller ID: 366698

ISBN: 0140150560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the love poem into a cynical rebuke and wrote tragedies in which the unfathomable actions of gods gave way to the staggering cruelties of man. As the empire slid into decay, Tacitus pulled back the curtain on the perverse intrigues of the emperors, and a Roman-educated Christian named Augustine recounted his spiritual awakening in what may be the wo...
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Rex Warner's New Translation of Three Great Plays of Euripides: Complete Texts of 'Medea,' Hippolytus,' and 'Helen' (A Mentor Classic, MT241)

By: Euripides

Price: $1.95

Publisher: The New American Library: January 1958

Seller ID: 338401

ISBN: B000HIY77C

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

By: Euripides

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 2003

Seller ID: 340524

ISBN: 0140449299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.

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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

By: Euripides

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1963

Seller ID: 341929

ISBN: 0140441298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society
The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the pr...
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

By: Grene, David

Price: $4.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1992

Seller ID: 342443

ISBN: 0226307905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 3

By: Grene, David

Price: $5.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1992

Seller ID: 342444

ISBN: 0226307913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
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The History Of Herodotus; Thucydides - The History Of The Peloponnesian War - Great Books Of The Western World, Volume 6

By: Herodotus

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica: January 1952

Seller ID: 361536

ISBN: B0016MFNXK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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